Chag Kasher vSameach,
Rav Elie Buechler
Director OU-JLIC at Columbia/Barnard
That’s the Orthodox Rabbi on the campus of Columbia University in New York telling Jewish students to go home until it is safe for them to return. The school has been rocked by massive pro-Palestinian demonstrations for the better part of a week. Despite arrests by the police, the action shows no indication of ending anytime soon.
The actions by pro-Palestinian forces are not limited to Columbia. There have been similar protests across the country, and the movement seems to be growing. Participants in these actions in addition to chanting and carrying signs have made a practice of intimidating Jewish students on campus and attempting to drive them out of school.
As we noted in a recent article, behind these allegedly spontaneous protests is a group called Students for Justice in Palestine. That group has extensive links to known terrorist organizations and is effectively a political front for Hamas on U.S. soil. There is no indication that federal authorities intend to take any action at a national level against this growing pro-terrorist movement on our soil. Perhaps the FBI is still too busy hunting down Moms for Liberty activists who oppose pornography in schools.
Why aren’t the Jews and their supporters protesting? We need to counter the Arabs who are being paid to be out there day after day.
Liberals and many Jews have been brainwashed to support Palestine. This began in earnest with Obama, but no one said a peep when the Muslim Brotherhood visited the White House multiple times.
“Never again” should be changed to “yet again!”
Embarrassing to see this activity in America. This is not why I volunteered for service in 1972. However it is this anti-Semitism here and in Europe that will drive the Jew back to their ancient homeland, just as the Bible says. God has an everlasting covenant with Israel, God blessed America mightily as long as we blessed Israel. It's easy to see where we are headed since we have rescinded our blessing of Israel.